Mao Kai flipped through the slides. "We conducted a series of experiments and made many new discoveries. In the following experiment, we tried to observe how mental power and magic power interact with each other..."
Mao Kai then introduced several experiments and their findings:
They used the same amount of mental power to push the magic crystal and the corresponding residue respectively, recorded their respective speeds, and found that the magic power in the magic crystal had a bonus effect on the mental power. The magic crystal with a larger mass actually moved faster.
They found that under the action of specific catalysts, magic crystals of different attributes can be converted into each other, especially spiritual magic crystals can be converted into various types of magic crystals, which further strengthened the speculation that magic power itself has no attributes.
They also discovered that magic power is not evenly distributed in space. Magic crystals will further crystallize in places where magic power is dense. The so-called magic crystal mine is a location where the magic power concentration is very high.
Finally, they discovered that the reason the magic circle worked was that the materials used to draw the magic circle contained a substance called magic power.
Mao Kai's report contained a lot of information. The audience took notes while listening, but many people still seemed to understand it vaguely.
It took him nearly two hours to simply explain all the experiments and conclusions. He concluded: "I hope everyone will practice hard and gradually join our work. After deeply understanding the nature of magic, both our magic practice and the scientific reconstruction of the old world will be greatly promoted. For magic, we can remove those mysterious superstitious contents, improve the design level of magic and the efficiency of spellcasting, and standardize and scientificize them; and for science, we can combine magic as a substance to create a new situation..."
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After class, Luo Ling found Mao Kai in the office.
Luo Ling flipped through his lecture notes and said, "Xiao Mao, your eloquence has improved a lot recently. You just explained the experiments clearly and easily understood."
"Teacher Luo, please don't look down on me. I was forced to come here because you were away. I can only explain one thing clearly, but my explanation is very boring. I know that they don't like to listen to my class." Mao Kai scratched his head and said, "I am good at research, so you still have to come to class."
"As for me, I may have to leave here for the capital soon. So, you still have to hold on to this position."
"Ah? Why are you leaving again?"
"Time is running out. This is true for research, and it is also true for the outside world." Luo Ling sighed slightly. "By the way, when I was listening to your report just now, I found that the fact that magic has no attributes is actually a very interesting thing."
"What do you mean? Mr. Luo, what do you think?"
"I have three half-baked ideas."
"You speak, and I'm all ears."
Luo Ling counted on her fingers and said, "First, since magic power has no attributes, then the attributes it acquires when it crystallizes depend on the surrounding elements, right?"
"That should be the case. The magic crystal mine you found is surrounded by copper mines, so the magic crystal does contain a lot of copper."
"That is to say, if we divide the magic crystal mine into different areas and put different types of compounds in it, we can produce different magic crystals in the same mine, right?"
"This... This is a really valuable idea. We haven't thought about it in this direction yet, but according to my analysis and inference, it should be feasible. The difficulty lies in slowly exploring the catalysts of different magic crystals. However, many magic documents record the experience of magicians and alchemists in using magic crystals. We should be able to find many ready-made methods from them. We can also slowly try and improve the remaining inaccurate records."
"Well, that's your business. The second point that came to my mind is that the traditional magic teaching in this world always mentions the issue of magic affinity. That is, everyone is good at different types of magic."
"Yes, there is such a phenomenon. For example, you are good at ice magic among elemental magic, and I am better at transformation magic."
"I'm not good at ice spells, it's just that ice spells are colder when cast, so I don't vomit blood easily." Luo Ling laughed, "But if magic power has no attributes, and mental power only deals with magic power and not the elements themselves, why do we have biases when casting spells?"
"This... is indeed very strange."
"I have a hypothesis that every magician does not have elements that they are not good at, but rather magic structures that they are not good at. In any series of magic, there are always some similar structures that are constantly used. Some people can easily understand this structure, while others can easily understand that structure. This gives people the illusion that magicians have affinity preferences.
Once the magician has mastered these structures, it will be easy for him to quickly master this series of magic. This gap will become larger and larger, causing the magician to get half the result with twice the effort in unfamiliar categories, and finally learning other magic systems will become an uneconomical choice.
"If you are right, then many training methods based on magic affinity are wrong. For example, water mages spend more time in water, and fire mages stay in hot places... Maybe they should spend more time playing with blocks and training their spatial imagination. But this inference needs to be verified slowly."
Luo nodded, raised his last finger and said, "I have another idea about magic runes. Since magic power is attributeless, the reason why magic runes work is because of their structure. But I don't think there is any natural logic in the association between characters that look like seal script and certain magic elements. It's more like someone has made a rule for it. Just like we agree that one represents chicken, two represents duck, three represents roasting, and four represents eating, we can use one to four to represent what to roast for dinner.
Therefore, runes are just a tool for manipulating magic, and they are neither unique nor irreplaceable. After we have studied the characteristics of the combination of magic power and elements, we may be able to directly mobilize magic power."
"That's right. From the perspective of the entire system, any rune or magic circle consumes energy. If we can directly mobilize the elements, I estimate that both the efficiency and power of the magic will be higher.
Teacher Luo, you just listen to my report and it seems like you have so many good ideas. You know a lot from hearing one thing. I admire you the most in this school." Mao Kai praised with admiration.
"Stop! Young people should learn well and stop learning those old guys' flattery!" Luo Ling scolded with a smile, "I've given you all my ideas, you can refer to them slowly. I'm really happy to see that you have achieved so many results today. You don't know how hard it is for us to hold on to the scene with just a little bit of strength.
Now I believe that with people like you, we will never lose to those magic towers in the future."